New Hampshire 2020 Redistricting

[Torie]

He is my Pubmander submission without chopping towns or cities that seems the least ugly, while of course still being ugly.



And another slightly less nasty looking which might actually be in play perhaps.

[Torie]

If I were Sununu, I would just say that while some other governors have found favor with obvious gerrymanders, he is not one of them, and there is no reason for NH to go there in particular, so let's just draw a clean map, which also just happens to make both seats competitive to varying degrees, and that is a good thing rather than  bad thing. The end. And given the numbers, he will get his way, and it does burnish a more non partisan image, and that is a good thing too in a country that is ever more packed with unpleasant partisan hacks.

[Torie]

Who knew that "soft gerrymanders" could be so butt ugly?

[Torie]

Anyone else worried can become a CT situation? Basically I can see how for the next couple redistricting cycles split control leads to court intervention and each time they draw a pretty least change map, leading to favourable outcome for Dems and a map that honestly doesn't represent COIs very well.

One has to smash mouth the existing lines as inimical to accepted neutral line drawing principles. I think that had something to do with the demise of the shape of NY-10 in this cycle, which was an extreme example of that. The meaning and application of the local Florida state law aside, there is a case to be made for the demise of the lines of FL-05 for the same reason.